Latest in Executive Branch
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Lawfare Daily: Trials of the Trump Administration, May 2
Listen to the May 2 livestream. -
Security Vendors Are Constantly Being Attacked
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare. -
How History Repeats Itself: Gloss and the Foreign Relations Constitution
A review of Curtis Bradley, “Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs: Constitutional Authority in Practice” (Harvard University Press, 2024) -
Lawfare Daily: Social Security, the ‘Death Master File,’ and Immigration Enforcement
Why is the Social Security Administration working with ICE? -
The Situation: 100 Days, 100 Acts of Menace and Inanity
An impressionistic painting. -
Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, May 2
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation targeting actions from President Trump. -
Secretary Hegseth Ends WPS Program Despite Joint Staff Support
A Joint Staff memorandum reviewed by Lawfare casts doubt on Secretary Hegseth’s claim that troops “hate” implementation of the Women, Peace, and Security Act. -
ChinaTalk: Will Everyone Get Nukes Now?
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Border Militarization Blurs the Distinction Between ‘Policing’ Immigration and ‘Combating’ Immigrants
NSPM-4, President Trump’s order on the military’s “mission for sealing the Southern Border,” obscures the fine-grained limits that ought to clearly and unambiguously regulate lethal force. -
Can the U.S. Government Compel States to Enforce Immigration Law?
Trump’s efforts to force state cooperation on immigration raise pressing questions about the constitutional limits of federal authority. -
Lawfare Daily: Andrew Bakaj on Whistleblowing and DOGE’s Activities at the NLRB
Discussing the declaration from a NLRB whistleblower. -
Rational Security: The “Keeping It 100” Edition
Scott Anderson, Molly Reynolds, and James Pearce talked through the week’s big national security news.


